If there’s anything I learned in this season in my life, it’s that loving God, and having faith in God is much like walking on water. We modern-day humans are so used to living life, trusting on our own strength, that trusting Jesus is out of the question. Even Christians can miss the mark and depend on their on will and strength move mountains.
The Ploning Movie is a testament to the production crew’s faith in God, for if they only believed in themselves, they may not have been able to surmount:
- Friends/ staff who had to land in a muddy airstrip and ended up getting stranded in another island.
- The peering eyes of the small-town-dwellers.
- The enormity of the project, with “zero budget.”
And the biggest mountain to be conquered of them all... This comfort room:
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I can certainly imagine surmounting the first three issues, but the comfort room, if I were part of the crew, would really be something I would have to...
Survive.
But I digress.
So many people have been given big dreams, and maybe other people and circumstances have may have discouraged them at some points. When all-time loser Abraham Lincoln became a once-and-for-possibly-eternity winner by becoming the American President most instrumental for abolishing slavery in the U.S., it showed one and all that even losers, if they just hold on to big dreams, can get from their destitute Point A, to their glamorous or honorable Point B, if they only believe.
I am of the opinion that this is what happened for the cast and crew of Ploning the Movie. Who would have thought that a former production designer, nearly utterly burned out from the film industry, would be resurrected as a phoenix would, to rise to become the director of a movie that is turning out to be blazing more trails than one?
Who would have thought that a former teenybopper actress known for B-movies, would finally be allowed to show her true colors as the world-class actress that she truly is? Who would have known that she would produce this film even?
As Executive Producer Jourdan Sebastian said:
And that, is the only way that big, audacious, crazy dreams by ordinary, everyday people, could ever get fulfilled. :)
Here's to walking on water. ;)
4 comments:
judy ann was a huge teenage star. i couldn't remember a B-movie she headlined as a teen. perhaps if we count the nondescript roles she played when she was way younger in regal movies.
Err, yus, I meant those OLD movies of hers. If you note, I did mention that Juday is an excellent actress, somewhere in the posts below. I am an acknowledged Juday fan, but I have to face the fact that her movies with Wowie de Guzman did typecast her for the Masa.
The movie look so promising, gonna watch it in theater soon.
yey! thank you! i think it's really a great movie to look forward to. not only because i write about it, but also because i think a lot of women, especially those in long-distance relationships, can relate. :)
this is a love story that many could relate to, in general, because most of us go through a lot in terms of love and loss, and even in waiting for the one we "lost." :)
hope you enjoy the film!
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